[PD] A few small questions

Marc Lavallée odradek at videotron.ca
Sun Nov 23 22:11:08 CET 2003


On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 02:47:03PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> Since you have a history of plugging references to french cultural
> elements in funny ways, I thought you'd appreciate to be reminded of 
this
> all-too-old lyric by Lucien Francoeur, to be spoken in a deep, personal
> voice (here translated for all eyes to read):
>
> "I love you because you are ugly"

My favorite quote from Francoeur is "ma poupée en gyprock"
("my plasterboard doll"). 80's rock poetry...

Using PD instead of Max is very challenging in some contexts where most
people uses Max; at some point there's no arguments left to explain why PD
is a better choice other than stating that ugliness is the most prominent
feature of free softwares. Of course jMax is not handicaped by this
essential feature. 
( B.T.W., have you seen DIP for jMax?
  http://www.dacreation.com/dips.html 
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/dipsforjmax/ )

PD's gui is not ugly, it is simple and is lacking some useful features.
But the more I try FLTK, the more I like it. SpiralSynth, SpiralLoops and
spiralsynthmodular have "nice" GUIs made with FLTK. There's even a tcl/tk
binding for FLTK 1.* : http://pages.infinit.net/cclients/files/fltk.html
--
Marc





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